Structure and nucleic-acid binding of the Drosophila Argonaute 2 PAZ domain

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6965, 2003, Pages 465-469

  Lingel, Andreas ^a   Simon, Bernd ^a   Izaurralde, Elisa ^a   Sattler, Michael ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYMES; GENES; HYDROPHOBICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING;

RNA;

PROTEIN; PROTEIN AGO2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

GENETICS;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME DEGRADATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ELECTROSTATICS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0345359925     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02123     Document Type: Article

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